| 单词 | gouge |
| 释义 | gouge (once / 4355 pages) nv To gouge can mean to make a hole or dent in something, or to swindle or steal by overcharging. If your local gas station raises prices because a storm is coming, you may say that the station owner is gouging you — and that's illegal. The verb gouge means to cut or carve. You can use special chisels to gouge linoleum for interesting design in printing. As a noun, a gouge is the tool you would use — instead of a flat-head chisel, a gouge has a trough — to make the gouge marks of the design. Another meaning of the verb gouge is an indentation in the surface of something. If you're not careful with the screwdriver, you'll accidentally gouge a hole in the wall. WORD FAMILYgouge: gouged, gouger, gouges, gouging+/gouger: gougers USAGE EXAMPLESPolice say Appiah later scratched the officer’s face and gouged his left eye during a struggle that was recorded on video. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) The whitewashed walls of his house are pockmarked with blast marks and jagged holes gouged by flying shrapnel. BBC(Dec 08, 2016) Express Scripts shares tumbled 6.7 percent after short-seller Citron Research called the pharmacy benefit manager the “real culprit” in drug price gouging. Time(Dec 08, 2016) 1n an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) Syn|Hypo|Hyper dent, ding, nick dig a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) blemish, defect, mar a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) 2n and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves Hyper edge tool any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) 3n the act of gouging Hyper creating by removal the act of creating by removing something 4v force with the thumb gouge out his eyes Syn|Hyper force out mar, mutilate destroy or injure severely 5v make a groove in Syn|Hyper rout core out, hollow, hollow out remove the interior of 6v swindle; obtain by coercion or intimidation Syn|Hypo|Hyper extort, rack, squeeze, wring bleed get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge rip off; ask an unreasonable price |
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